A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONCaring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
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Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.
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A disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
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